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Why is there a button on the seat belt of a car: There are many features in a car which we rarely notice. These also include a small plastic button, which is installed on every seat belt. Simple in appearance but very important in function!
At some point or the other you must have been sitting in a car and must have been wearing a seat belt. You must have noticed that there is a plastic button on that seat belt. This is not a button to be pressed. But his work is very important. Recently, an expert told the real function of this button, about which hardly people would know.
There are many features in a car which we rarely notice. These also include a small plastic button, which is installed on every seat belt. Simple in appearance but very important in function! The importance of this button becomes clear only when it disappears. Special information about this button has been given in a report of Reader’s Digest. Automobile safety expert Thomas Barth has told such things about this button, about which hardly anyone would know.
This button prevents the seat belt buckle from falling down. (Photo: Amazon)
This button is to keep the latch in the right place.
Thomas Barth has been involved in occupant safety in the automobile and aircraft industry for 20 years. He told that this small button actually works to hold the latch plate in the right place. If this button was not there, then every time you sit in the car, you would have to lift the latch plate from the seat or floor, which would be very inconvenient. Keeping this problem in mind, car manufacturing companies started installing this stop button, seat belt stopper or retention button on the seat belt. Its function is to prevent the latch plate from sliding down, so that it always remains in your grip and helps in easily putting on the belt.
